Cory Booker endorses Patrick Murphy for U.S. Senate

[naoya6161]

http://www.saintpetersblog.com/archives/232385

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is the latest high-profile Democrat to endorse Patrick Murphy in his bid for U.S. Senate in 2016.

Booker, a former mayor of Newark, called Murphy “fresh, new leadership” needed to address the nation’s challenges.

“Patrick will be a champion for working families, women, and our seniors in Florida and across the country,” Booker said in a statement. “His long-term vision to help the middle class is exactly what we need right now.”

Booker is a “rising star in the Democratic Party,” Murphy responded.

“Since coming to the Senate in 2013,” he added, Booker “established himself as a fighter for New Jersey’s middle class and is a powerful voice for a new generation of leaders in Washington.

“I am honored to have his support, and am eager to work with him in the U.S. Senate.”

Wednesday’s endorsement is the latest example of growing Democratic establishment support for Murphy, who is seeking Marco Rubio’s Senate seat as he runs for the Republican presidential nomination. Murphy currently represents Florida’s 18th Congressional District, which covers the Treasure Coast region, St. Lucie and Martin Counties and part of Palm Beach County.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) endorsed Murphy last month, as did Florida U.S. Reps. Alcee Hastings, Ted Deutch, Lois Frankel and Frederica Wilson. Among the statewide leaders backing Murphy include former Gov. Charlie Crist, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, and 25 Democrats in the state legislature.

Murphy also announced a list of local supporters from the heavily Democratic Broward County: Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler, Broward County Mayor Tim Ryan, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, Broward County Property Appraiser Lori Parrish, and Broward County Commissioners Martin Kiar, Mark Bogen, Beam Furr, and Dale Holness.

[djean111]

1. No one in that New Democratic Coalition gets a vote from me. Floridian here.

If this is where the Democratic Party is headed - I can say with great certainty that it has left me behind. On the Left.

[naoya6161]

4. And what if Murphy turns out to be the nominee?

[djean111]

5. This is where the rubber hits the road. Or I do. He is not really a Democrat.

We are supposed to listen to what people say, and, more importantly, pay attention to what they do. if you think that we are just supposed to vote for the letter, than why bother with all of the endorsements and campaign blather. He votes with the GOP more than he votes with the Dems, from what I can tell.

Technically, Patrick Murphy is a Democrat. He switched his registration from "Republican" just before challenging much-hated Tea Party target Allen West in 2012. A son of great wealth and privilege, Murphy was, of course, a lifelong Republican. Since getting into the House he's voted with Republicans on crucial roll calls more frequently than with Democrats. As a member of the House Financial Services Committee, he's sold out 100% to the Wall Street banksters and works consistently to help the Republicans seduce weak-minded and cowardly New Dems into joining them in dismantling the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms.

It is up to the DNC to run actual Democrats. This time, they are not. No one in the New Democratic Coalition - working to cooperate with the GOP! - gets my vote.

[HooptieWagon]

7. Yep.

The state party has run out of New Democrats to run for office...they kept losing. So now they're lining up Republicans to run as Democrats....anything they can to avoid progressive liberals on the ballot. By their actions we can see where their loyalties lie.

[naoya6161]

10. And how do you define "progressive liberal"?

[naoya6161]

8. Actually no

I'm assuming that the article you're referring to is from that one blog Segami posted. Blogs are never reliable sources.

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/apr/09/brook-hines/patrick-murphy-supports-gop-most-key-votes-strateg/

He actually doesn't vote with the GOP as often as Democrats.

[djean111]

9. From your link - still not good enough for me -

GovTrack.us graphs Murphy as a centrist, but not nearly as far to the right as other Democrats. Ballotpedia.org concluded that Murphy outright voted with Republicans on three out of 13 issues.

Perhaps most comprehensive is CQ’s "party unity" score, which measures how often Murphy voted with his party when a majority of Democrats voted the same way. His score for votes in 2014 is an 80, meaning he sided with Republicans about 20 percent of the time.

That puts him about 12th from the bottom in terms of voting with his party, and the lowest among Florida’s delegation. For reference, the party average is about 90 percent; Minnesota Democrat Collin Peterson is dead last with a unity score of 48.

In my opinion, if he is a senator, his centrist ways will just hurt us worse.

[naoya6161]

11. In what way?

[djean111]

12. One more vote out of 435 possible votes, siding with the GOP is bad enough.

One more vote for the GOP out of only 100 possible votes is worse.
I believe Murphy will only get more bold about his GOP roots if he is in the Senate. And he just switched from GOP four years ago. The New Democratic Coalition is, IMO and all that, just GOP infiltration.

[naoya6161]

15. He's the best we're going to get out of Florida at the moment

Since Florida is still the biggest swing state ever, there's not really much room for error in the Democratic nominee's campaign, especially if they're going up against a better-known candidate.
I've yet to see anyone other than Murphy and Graham who has the ability to run in a competitive Florida race and come out the victor. Even though I don't agree with all of Murphy's votes, I do believe he is the candidate with the best shot of turning the Senate seat blue.

[djean111]

19. From my point of view, Murphy is just the greased slide to not blue, but purple then to red.

As long as Wasserman is there, we are not going to get anything but DINOs out of Florida.
If I could move, I would.

[naoya6161]

24. If you want a Progressive Senator/Governor from Florida...

Then you'll need to find one who's capable of running a good campaign. That's the real key to winning races in Florida...I do believe that's what sunk quite a few of our candidates in the recent past.
On an unrelated note, where would you go if you could move?

[HooptieWagon]

34. State Party is hostile to progressives,

So it's hard to build a bench. There's a few at local levels, and probably a number of newcomers willing to try running for office, but State Party keeps them away.

[HooptieWagon]

21. Are you from Florida?

There's nearly a million more registered Dems than Republicans. A progressive or liberal Dem can easily win urban districts and state-wide elections. The state party actively works against that...they want corporatist a only on the ballot, they don't care if a Rep or Dem wins, cause it's still a win for their corporate masters. Dem voters are simply tired of that shit, so many have lost interest in voting. Maybe having Sanders head up the ticket in the GE will get them out, Hillary def won't.

[naoya6161]

25. Yeah I'm from Florida

Having looked back at the successes and failures of previous years, I believe that the key for Democrats to win office is running good campaigns.
As I do recall, a lot of people turned out for the Presidential election...which this election will take place in. I'm assuming that when you refer to low turnout, you're talking about last election.

[djean111]

30. The thing is "running good campaigns" = "having craploads of money".

Murphy has basically purchased his Rep. seat, and now he will basically purchase a Senate seat, if he should win. It is the money that talks. IMO and all of that. Things are not going to get less Conservative that way. Ever. Ever.

[naoya6161]

32. Allen West actually outspent Murphy in the 2012 race

And he still won.

[HooptieWagon]

16. In a corporatist way, duh.

That's all the state party keeps forcing on us. My Cong district had a progressive Dem filed to run. State Party and their local henchmen forced him to withdraw by making numerous death threats to he and his family, so they could clear the primary for their candidate...a former republican naturally. I'm simply not going to abide that shit. Evil is evil.

[naoya6161]

18. What race is this referring to?

[Segami]

20. Are you from the 'Elect Patrick Murphy' camp?

[HooptieWagon]

22. Or a DLC fan...

[naoya6161]

27. Why do you ask?

[HooptieWagon]

23. Fl-13 in 2014.

[naoya6161]

26. That's the seat being occupied by Jolly right now isn't it?

Tell me more.

[HooptieWagon]

28. Yes.

It's the Seat formerly held by Bill Young. When he died, there was a special election to fill the seat. The last Dem candidate to run against Young filed to run. The state party didn't want a progressive on the ballot, forced her to withdraw, and talked Alex Sink into running for that seat, even though she lived outside the district. She had to move into the district, ran a similar lack-luster campaign like she did for Governor, and lost to Jolly. In the next Election cycle, about 9 months later, a local AA minister filed to run. Another progressive. The state party again approached Sink to run, she waffled a bit and then declined. Shortly before the filing deadline, the state party got an Iraqi vet to run, he had to change party to Dem. The other Dem candidate withdrew...in an interview he said he and his family had gotten several anonymous death threats and pointed the finger at state and county level party officials, but wasn't able to name who. Shortly after the filing deadline, the Tampa Bay Times published an article revealing that the Dem candidate (the ex-republican) had lied about his college degree and other resume details. He then withdrew, citing that he "didn't know campaigning would be so hard". As a consequence, there was NO Democratic candidate on the ballot, in a purple district that a Democrat could have won. All due to the shenanigans and incompetence of the state party, whose de facto head is DWS.

[naoya6161]

31. Wow

That sounds like that was a very Florida race.
I didn't hear anything about death threats though - that's Sykes right? All I heard about that was that the party told him he wouldn't get any endorsements if he ran.

[think]

2. Patrick Murphy. Another former Republican in the Democratic machine....

Patrick Murphy (Florida politician)

~Snip~

Murphy was a member of the Republican Party, donating the maximum individual contribution of $2,300 to Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign and $4,800 to other Republican candidates, until four months prior to announcing his candidacy for Congress, at which time he switched his registration to the Democratic Party and donated $4,000 to a variety of Democratic candidates.[20] He says he switched from being a Republican and a Mitt Romney supporter because of his disgust with the Tea Party movement.[20] Murphy was described in The Huffington Post as a "pro-choice, pro-LGBT rights but 'not ultra-liberal' Democrat who values fiscal responsibility."[5] The top five contributors to Murphy's campaign committee for the 2013-2014 time period were his family's construction company, Deloitte, Suntech Plumbing, Goldman Sachs, and J Street PAC.[21]

~snip~

Full entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Murphy_%28Florida_politician%29

[Segami]

3. "....Technically, Patrick Murphy is a Democrat....

".....He switched his registration from "Republican" just before challenging much-hated Tea Party target Allen West in 2012. A son of great wealth and privilege, Murphy was, of course, a lifelong Republican. Since getting into the House he's voted with Republicans on crucial roll calls more frequently than with Democrats. As a member of the House Financial Services Committee, he's sold out 100% to the Wall Street banksters and works consistently to help the Republicans seduce weak-minded and cowardly New Dems into joining them in dismantling the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms. The Democratic freshmen voting more frequently with the GOP than with their own party are:


• Patrick Murphy (New Dem-FL)

• Kyrsten Sinema (New Dem-AZ)

• Raul Ruiz (CA)

• Pete Gallego (Blue Dog-TX)

• Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ)

• Sean Patrick Maloney (New Dem-NY)


http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2013/07/patrick-murphy-is-he-worst-freshman.html

[CharlotteVale]

6. Cory Booker, Bain Capital defender.

[djean111]

13. Yup. Another DINO.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/05/20/487391/newark-mayor-cory-booker-defends-bain-capital-attacks-obama-campaign/

The Obama campaign has responded by highlighting instances where Romney’s actions at Bain Capital resulted in substantial job loses. On Meet the Press, Booker called criticizing Romney’s time at Bain “ridiculous” and “nauseating.” He also equated criticisms of Romney’s buisness record with racially charged attacks against Obama centered around Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Watch it:

[CharlotteVale]

29. I saw him on Rachel's show trying to spin away his words.

I don't know what disgusted me more - his comments, or Rachel trying to save him just because they went to school together.

[AtomicKitten]

14. Third Way endorses Third Way. Yawn.

[KamaAina]

17. DINO endorses ex-repuke. Film at 11.

[seveneyes]

33. Hardly